Facilitation

We invite you to conversations about…

...facilitation

You as a facilitator

So, you have been asked to facilitate! Who are you? What are your strengths? What skills do you bring to the task? Are you a facilitator?

In this workshop, we will

· identify ‘learning edges’

· identify your part in the facilitation community

· give and receive feedback

· compare and contrast facilitation with training, mediation, consultation…

· explore our own ‘theoretical stance’ as a facilitator/trainer.

 

Managing yourself as a facilitator

Facilitation involves ‘making things easier’ for a group.  Facilitators often make that task look easy. So how do they do it? In this workshop, we will:

· explore being self aware

· explore optimism

· identify ways in which we can be ‘the right person at the right time in the right place’.

 

Managing the event

Facilitators are required to manage the ‘event’ of the facilitation group. In this workshop, we will:

· explore structures and models for planning a group session

· identify ways of conducting a meeting or group session

· identify levels of community involvement and community building

· explore the structures we need to manage a facilitation event.

 

Managing the process

In the face-to-face experience of the facilitated session, there are things facilitators do to enable participants to focus on the task and the process.

In this workshop, we will:

· discuss guidelines for group interaction and whether they will be negotiated, imposed, expected, explicit and/or implicit

· explore and experience a range of group processes.

 

Managing the individual and the group

The facilitator’s tool kit includes a range of techniques which support individuals and the group. In this workshop, we will explore and experience techniques in some of the following areas (according to identified need): starting a session, establishing trust, dealing with resistance and fears, dealing with defensive behaviour, managing challenges from participants, managing confusion, managing intense emotion, ending a session, terminating a session, evaluating the session, continuing evaluation, self evaluation.

 

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